Orietta Da Rold

Dr Orietta Da Rold is a University Lecturer, Fellow at St John’s College and a member of the Centre for Material Texts. Before coming to Cambridge she was at Leicester, and before that she covered research positions at Oxford, Birmingham and Leeds. Orietta is also an Affiliate of Stanford Text Technologies.
Her research interests are in medieval literature and texts c 1100–1500, Chaucer and the digital humanities. In particular, she works on the social and cultural context of the circulation and transmission of medieval texts and books, and researches the codicology and palaeography of medieval manuscripts. Orietta has just completed a book-length project, currently titled 'Paper in Medieval England', which was funded by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. This project brings to completion the first phase of her long-standing research interest in medieval paper as a technology and a cultural artefact. Building on the 'Mapping Paper in Medieval England Project', funded by a Cambridge CHRG Grant, Orietta is now engaged in the second stage of this project, focusing on 'Paper in Time and Space'.